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Re: Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)

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Post by railsjedi »

bergie wrote: post #2

Interesting. Though of course you can just use my http://createjs.org/ and get pretty much the same thing for free :-)

CreateJS is awesome. This service seems to be more about content hosting though. So still useful to some people I think.

Re: Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)

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Post by bergie »

railsjedi wrote: post #3
bergie wrote: post #2

Interesting. Though of course you can just use my http://createjs.org/ and get pretty much the same thing for free :-)

CreateJS is awesome. This service seems to be more about content hosting though. So still useful to some people I think.

True, though usually people would seem rather want to have their content on their own servers, and have an API the editing tool uses to save. This is the scenario Create.js was built for, allowing you to use it in a custom web app, but also major CMSs like TYPO3 or OpenCms to build their custom UIs on top of it.

Re: Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)

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Post by railsjedi »

bergie wrote: post #4
railsjedi wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CreateJS is awesome. This service seems to be more about content hosting though. So still useful to some people I think.

True, though usually people would seem rather want to have their content on their own servers, and have an API the editing tool uses to save. This is the scenario Create.js was built for, allowing you to use it in a custom web app, but also major CMSs like TYPO3 or OpenCms to build their custom UIs on top of it.

Definitely. I bet there's a lot of companies / startups who need something quick and simple though. So lots of room for both solutions.

Re: Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)

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Post by bergie »

railsjedi wrote: post #6
bergie wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

True, though usually people would seem rather want to have their content on their own servers, and have an API the editing tool uses to save. This is the scenario Create.js was built for, allowing you to use it in a custom web app, but also major CMSs like TYPO3 or OpenCms to build their custom UIs on top of it.

Definitely. I bet there's a lot of companies / startups who need something quick and simple though. So lots of room for both solutions.

Yep, having 'competition' sort of validates the approach :-)

Re: Show HN: Instant CMS as a Service on any element (with contenteditable)

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Post by bergie »

callmevlad wrote: post #5

Glad to see that contenteditable-type editors are becoming more viable. Looks like Copybar uses Redactor, but I'm hoping bergie's http://hallojs.org/ gets a lot more traction since it's the only one that's MIT licensed.

The good thing about Hallo is, besides licensing and easy plugin development, the fact that it uses plain, unstyled contentEditables, so the stuff you're editing looks exactly like it will look on the real page.

I integrated Redactor as another editor option in Create.js a while back, but it looks a bit strange because it changes the styling of the currently active content area. Other than that it is very simple and clean!

Another valid editor option is Aloha, http://aloha-editor.org

You can use any (or even all) of these with Create, or integrate your own. The next editor I'm looking to add is CKEditor 4, as it also has an inline editing mode: http://nightly-v4.ckeditor.com/3627/samples/inlineall.html

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